Homeopathic Food

[Johnny Pneumatic]

I devised a type of test of homeopathy that homeopaths can't say has faulty results. A homeopathic food test. If water has a memory then food diluted in it to 30C should provide calories etc. If people don't starve while on the homeopathic food then water memory is valid. I suggest that the homeopaths are the test subjects, they're the ones that believe the crap. If they die then there's one less stupidity spreader on Earth.

[geni]

Originally posted by SkepticJ
I devised a type of test of homeopathy that homeopaths can't say has faulty results. A homeopathic food test. If water has a memory then food diluted in it to 30C should provide calories etc. If people don't starve while on the homeopathic food then water memory is valid. I suggest that the homeopaths are the test subjects, they're the ones that believe the crap. If they die then there's one less stupidity spreader on Earth.

The water has a memoery thing is not a universal belife amounst homeopaths.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Originally posted by geni
The water has a memoery thing is not a universal belife amounst homeopaths.

Then how do they rationalise that water could cure anything other than dehydration?

[geni]

Originally posted by SkepticJ
Then how do they rationalise that water could cure anything other than dehydration?

By working at the level of the vital force

[Rolfe]

Originally posted by SkepticJ
Then how do they rationalise that water could cure anything other than dehydration? First, they don't. Most of the homoeopathic remedies dispensed aren't water. Most are sugar pills, and most of the remainder are water/alcohol mixtures. With a few calories in them, actually.

However, that's a digression.

Homoeopathic teaching says that disease is caused by a disordered vital force. This disordered vital force can be gently nudged back into order by the administration of a substance which, when it is given to healthy people, produces the same symptions as the sick person is suffering from.

That is the basic "like cures like" tenet.

The whole diluting thing is secondary. The inventor originally tried it out with socking great doses of things like mercury and arsenic, and killed a few people. He therefore tried diluting the preparations to eliminate the bad effects. He got rather carried away, but managed to convince him that his preparations contained the spiritual essence of the remedy, and were both more powerful and less toxic than the natural substances.

OK, it doesn't make any sense, but that's roughly how they tell it. The point is that it's all about the disordered vital force, and like cures like. There's absolutely no way you can get from these tenets to the proposition that there are calories in a 30C preparation of a food substance, or get any homoeopath to agree that if a 30C preparation of a food substance doesn't nourish you then homoeopathy is a crock.

It's still a crock, but you'll never prove it that way.

Rolfe.

[CFLarsen]

Homeopathic Functional Food (http://www.skepticreport.com/funnies/homeopathyfuncfood.htm)

[BillC]

That's a great article, Claus.

[CFLarsen]

Originally posted by BillC
That's a great article, Claus.

I know. Tell deBergerac. He wrote it. :)